WHO wrote her speech??? She was reading words someone else wrote...

[opihimoimoi]

Is she being set up, as the speech was empty of beef and read meat, mostly old talking points....?

Or, are her speech writers trapped into a set GOP Mode....Attack attack atttack???

Why was her main speech so weak and limited???

[pot luck]

Because it was written by Bush's speech writer.

[opihimoimoi]

7. No wonder the lackluster....mostly Bluster.....

YIKEs

[bushisanidiot]

1. What are you talking about? Didn't you get the talking points memo?

she "winged" the entire speech..

BWHAHAHAHAHA!!

[opihimoimoi]

6. She winged it alright.....she was coached for DAZE

:puke:

[hughee99]

2. It still surprises me that Obama and Biden find the time

to write all their speeches themselves.

[opihimoimoi]

3. Less mistakes and more Sincere.....Palin risks her name when reading what others wrote...IE BUSH

[OwnedByFerrets]

4. She was reading words that came straight from gods

speechwriter. Context: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told ministry students at her former church that the United States sent troops to fight in the Iraq war on a "task that is from God."
Thus, she thinks B*sh IS god. And monkeyboys speechwriter wrote that vile blather.

[opihimoimoi]

5. It WAS Vile Blather...designed to stir Divisive feelings....bad tactic

They tried it before...got us Bush...now they wanna try it yet AGAIN???

[MagickMuffin]

8. Matthew Scully wrote that swill

Matthew Scully (born March 30, 1959, in Casper, Wyoming) is an American author, journalist, and speechwriter. He worked as a speechwriter in the 2000 presidential campaign, and served as a special assistant and senior speechwriter for President George W. Bush from January 2001 to August 2004. He has also written for vice-presidents Dan Quayle and Dick Cheney, the late Governor Robert P. Casey of Pennsylvania, and vice presidential nominee Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska.

[underpants]

9. Who this vapid Blackburn woman?

WOW this is one for the ages. This is public stupidity.

[AkFemDem]

10. The first 5 mins or so sounded like HER, but then she went into drone mode

Not that I like her sounding like her either, but it's preferable to the talking points someone else put into her mouth.

[TTUBatfan2008]

11. "Reform" eh?

Then why is she using Bush's speechwriters and why is McCain using Karl Rove's political tactics? Reform my ass. This country needs to wake the fuck up. The Republican Party is a machine. There is no real reform in that party outside of a crackpot named Ron Paul.

[Arkansas Granny]

12. The speech was chosen before Palin was.

Putting Words in Palin's Mouth
There was a flutter of attention when McCain campaign manager Rick Davis told a group of Post reporters and editors yesterday that his team was having to rework the vice presidential acceptance speech because the original draft, prepared before Gov. Sarah Palin was chosen, was too "masculine." While we all wondered to ourselves what might make a speech masculine or feminine, no one batted an eye at the underlying revelation: that the campaign was writing the nominee's speech before knowing who the nominee would be.


Never mind the prehistoric days when a politician might be expected to write his or her own words; speechwriters have been around since long before television. But traditionally their job was to channel their bosses' thoughts and ideas into poetry, or at least comprehensible English. Nowadays, apparently it's naive to expect a speech even to reveal something of the essential views or character of the speaker. Instead, campaigns -- not just the McCain campaign -- draft their speeches with an eye to which demographic groups need to receive which messages, and then we in the media rate the speeches based on how well we think they hit those targets.

So when you watch Sarah Palin tonight, expect to learn something about how well she handles a Teleprompter. Expect to learn something about the McCain campaign's assessment of its political standing with women, or working families, or social conservatives. Whether you're learning what Sarah Palin really thinks or feels is anybody's guess.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2008/09/putting_words_in_palins_mouth.html

[iconicgnom]

13. Same people who wrote Giuliani's speech.